Wild Babies

Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School

Age: 05 to 07 years old

Jigsaw puzzles provide children with the opportunity to practice trial and error to find a solution. Manipulating the pieces and figuring out where they fit and where they don't introduces your child to the early math skills he will need to succeed later on. Second, jigsaw puzzles are perfect for teaching kids to persevere in the face of a challenge. Puzzles are really the only “games” that cannot be completed or won through cheating. You can't force the pieces together if they don't belong and there's no way to outsmart your opponent, so to speak. The only way to finish is to exercise patience while staying focused on the bigger picture.

Pedagogical goals

• Knowing about the wild animals;
• Understand curiosities involving the habits of wild animals;
• Stimulate learning;
• Stimulate problem-solving strategy skills;
• Develop attention and logical thinking;
• Develop motor coordination;
• Promote memory exercise;
• Develop different thinking skills such as: observe, compare, analyze and synthesize;
• Analyze figures and expand the notions of composition and decomposition from the fragmentation of an image;
• Perceive the different positions of fragmented figures in an image;
• Analyze figures and expand the notions of composition and decomposition from the fragmentation of an image;
• Perceive the different positions of fragmented figures in an image;
• Stimulate cooperation among colleagues by promoting activities in pairs or groups;